Curl up with the publications from Queer Youth Art Collective’s latest group show. Featuring 35 different zines, pamphlets, poems, scrapbooks, spellbooks and collages. Expect instructions, allusions, illustrations, incantations and puns galore!
Hosted by Miggy Barker
ACCESS: Ground level building with accessible toilet. Sober event. Free to attend.
About the exhibition:
This Autumn, one hundred and forty LGBTQ artists aged 18-28 are coming together from across the UK to exhibit at QUEERCIRCLE. With no judging panel, we have accepted all works submitted, in aid of building careers, confidence and creative community and removing barriers to the arts.
QYAC was founded in 2019, running weekly Sunday workshops in Greenwich and on Zoom. We provide a place for LGBT young people to be creative, share experiences, advice, resources, and breathe a little easier.
Exhibition curator: Ama Josephine Johnstone Budge.
QYAC Team: Fredrik Andersson, Maymana Arefin, Dex Grodner, Marleigh Layne, Mars Scott, Feygl Singer-Hobbs, Becca Thomas.
Curation Statement by Ama Josephine Johnstone Budge:
It feels like there is a thin line between our dreams and the harsh realities of this moment, we are tripping on this line all the time. Please remember that if you are not queer, or this is not your lived reality, that our hearts are beating every day as we navigate this world. What might seem silly to you, we believe can be political, this is a space for all of our ways of finding protest. You can’t have silly without the seriousness, the reasons we need this space is because of all the serious things that are happening in the world.
The title Dream This Silly embodies a sense of queer joy, both in the work we submit and in the collective space of all these artists presenting something together as a collective. This is powerful in the face of despair and our collective grief. We invite you to celebrate with us, to fuel our fights with this joy. Silliness can be a tool to relieve grief. Dreams are important to think about again - to return to - we have a right to dream without grief as well as to recover from our grief through dreaming.